{"id":3963,"date":"2011-05-06T21:48:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T20:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/06\/health-challenge-ahead\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T21:54:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T20:54:25","slug":"health-challenge-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/06\/health-challenge-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal health challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have got a doctor appointment for June 10. I expect this to be only the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Since January or early February my bladder has been shrinking. As late as last year, I could sleep as long as I wanted on weekends. Now, even though I go to the bathroom last thing before sleep, I can rarely sleep 7 hours before I have to get up and urinate again. Sometimes closer to 5 hours. This is not natural. It is like I have aged two decades in five months.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, I have to assume I have my first cancer. I suppose it could be some kind of hernia putting pressure on the bladder. One thing I am pretty sure it is not, diabetes. I don&#8217;t urinate significantly more, or I would have noticed it. Will still check blood sugar too, just to eliminate.<br \/>\nIf it is prostate cancer, it should be fairly easy to diagnose and the prognosis is generally good. I don&#8217;t have typical prostate symptoms though. The pressure is less than in my youth, but it is far from stop &amp; go. It really seems more like some outside pressure on the bladder itself.<\/p>\n<p>Or I may just be more sensitive, possibly. I can&#8217;t say I have seen any general symptoms of cancer spreading, like unnatural weight loss or fatigue. So it seems too early to panic. I will make sure to inform you of any panic if it becomes relevant.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I should probably not enter into any new long term commitments, financial or otherwise, until this is checked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have got a doctor appointment for June 10. I expect this to be only the beginning. Since January or early February my bladder has been shrinking. As late as last year, I could sleep as long as I wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/06\/health-challenge-ahead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3964,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions\/3964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}